Give Me 60 Minutes and I’ll Give You Relief From Anxiety

Give Me 60 Minutes and I’ll Give You Relief From Anxiety

Anxiety is a fact of life. Even if we would like to eradicate anxious feelings it’s not possible because our body is designed to respond a particular way to possible threats. As a Hypnotherapist, if you give me 60 minutes, I’ll give you relief from anxiety. Read the following blog to find out how.

What is anxiety?

We have an inbuilt system designed to protect us from danger known as the ‘fight or flight’ response. When our brain perceives a threat our sympathetic nervous system kicks in flooding our body with adrenaline so that we can prepare to protect ourselves. Blood goes to our limbs and away from our digestive and reproductive system, our breathing gets quicker so we get oxygen to our muscles and our heart pumps faster to get that oxygen to where we need it, to either make a dash for it or fight our way out of perceived danger. Which is great if you are in danger but not so good if you are sat worrying about a presentation you need to do.

When we are in an anxious state our internal dialogue can really ramp up. We often make unrealistic self-statements, we can be unkind to ourselves and start to make predictions about possible negative outcomes.

Not only does our thinking get loud but we can also start to fear the reaction we feel in our body. We start to reject the feelings and try to avoid anything that feels similar to this anxious reaction such as excitement trying to numb ourselves.

Long-term anxiety can lead us to avoid situations, environments or people that evokes the anxiety response. Anxiety can take a hold and restrict us from living the life we want and deserve.

How hypnotherapy can help?

During a 60 minute Hypnotherapy session with me, I will support you to return to your calm default. I start with physical relaxation and then help you to calm the mind turning the volume down on the internal chatter. I then use positive suggestion to support you to: